Tax oversights can’t be excused

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Jul 26, 2009 at 12:01 AM

I canít understand how people with massive obligations to credit card companies, the IRS for back taxes, failure to report income, etc., can have their obligations reduced or even eliminated. Note all the ads on television and in newspapers.

You and I are treated like criminals if we miss even $100 in taxes. It seems to me that the IRS should be checking the bigger fish.

Why is it that political officials get appointed to prestigious positions before these tax shortfalls are found? They have employees for which no Social Security has been paid.

You canít make me believe that these errors were an oversight rather than fraud.

When these discrepancies are found, I feel that both the taxpayer and the tax preparer are guilty, and, where applicable, they should be charged with a crime.

Maybe then the taxpayers, accountant and/or tax preparer would think twice before preparing and signing the report. It is impossible for me to believe that someone could have a nanny, maid, valet, chauffer, gardener, etc., and be ignorant of the fact that both parties are not aware of their obligation.

Iím afraid I believe itís fraud. How come these oversights seem to happen just to politicians?

John T. Haaf

Beaver

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